Brendan is out this week, but we’re joined by San Francisco comedians Matt Lieb and OJ Patterson (of CourtingComedy) to talk about True Romance. We open talking comedy, and Matt gives us an update on the girl who spit in his face and choked him out in his mom’s minivan, who he recently talked out of suicide. Then we bring on Patrick Schumacker, Justin Halpern’s writing partner on Surviving Jack, who happened to find out that his show had been cancelled just a few hours before coming on.

But the reason Pat’s on is to talk about The Hemorrhoid That Destroyed a Marriage (pictured, well below). Okay, technically just a wedding, but it’s still a great story. Wallowing in pathos this week. We finish off with a lengthy discussion of True Romance, from the perspective of a guy who’s seen it (Matt), a guy who watched it four times this weekend (me), and a guy who saw it for the first time last night (OJ).

Enjoy! And leave us an iTunes review! Oh, and as promised, yes, I have a picture of the bloodclot that got pulled out of Patrick’s ass, if you’re interested (fair warning, it’s pretty gross, so I’m putting it alllll the way at the bottom – heh – of this post).

Yeah, not before we were all grossed out and hypnotically drawn to looking at the full-size picture. I am disappointed there’s nothing for scale here. What are we talking, is this thing the size of a loonie, or closer to a toonie?

I’m familiar with your crazy names for money, but not with the sizes of said coins. But if that’s a standard cotton gauze, then I’d say that it is about the size of an American quarter. I think those are about the same as Canadian quarters. Which one has a fucking beaver on it?

Yeah, it’s made out of a polymer plastic now so it doesn’t rip or burn, and looks even more like Monopoly money. Fancy bright colours! But at least here I won’t mistake a $100 for a $1 and leave a waitress the tip of her life like I did in San Jose one time.

Holy shit, what the hell is wrong with you guys??!! I’m at work, an you couldn’t give us a little more of a warning? Thanks a lot, now I have to have this huge, throbbing erection in front of everybody.

This was really funny, but this discussion does not seem conducive to me finally posting my thoughts on your racism discussion from last week’s episode. Though I will say that Matt’s entire argument is premised on people feeling shame, which is something that we as Americans are taught not to do, and if you can point to one instance of a public person feeling or acknowledging shame I will gasp in shock.

Yeah, I thought Matt was totally on point last week. Yes, in theory the witch hunt element is bad, but my Christ, if anyone ever deserved it, it’s Donald Sterling. Besides, Sterling has done some waaaay worse shit, so he deserves to be called out, even if it’s for the ‘wrong’ reason.

With regard to how to discuss racism and such, not so much. As Paul said, it just makes people defensive and just become more circumspect in how they perpetrate their racism. Especially since almost no one actually thinks they’re racist.

I hate poor people because I grew up poor but bettered myself to escape it (I also hate rich people through the same/opposite reasoning), and the things I hate about it transcend race. But because of disproportionate effect it’s really easy to criticize people and have it come off prejudiced.

I also think about and discuss “racism” as an -ism and as it’s used academically to describe the institutional practice of race-based discrimination and subjugation. So Donald Sterling’s actions of discriminating and punishing people based on race when it comes to something fundamental like housing is totally, 100% racism/racist. Not liking black people is just prejudice or bigotry.